It is over. Some hoped perhaps that Cancellara and Voigt would take the Schlecks for a lap advantage on the Champs Elysees, but like always, nothing like that happened in the final stage. Evans stayed in yellow, Cavendish secured the green jersey and in the classifications of our Vivelo Tour Competition there were no major changes in the last stage.

It's all been decided. At least in the Tour de France, where Cadel Evans did what we all expected him to do. In our Vivelo Tour Competition De Gendt, Porte and Péraud made top 10 but they didn´t score enough to shake the general rankings. Unless miracles happen tomorrow in Paris, the Vivelo Fever full carbon racebike, model 2012 is for Marco H. as winner of the Combination Classification. Theoeltinkfan (Main Competition), Rhodry (Stage Competition) and Erik van Ginkel (Points Competition) will be the winners of the Vivelo Space 05 Mountainbike.

We’re all out of superlatives after another exciting stage in the Tour. So we restrict ourselves to the games. Where, unlike in France, the decisions are made in the margins. Contador? The Schlecks? Sammie Sanchez or Cadel Evans? Pierre Rolland? Not enough. If you want to win at l'Alpe d'Huez in our league, you also need Peter Velits, and preferably even Thomas de Gendt.

Another heroic stage in the Tour. But where in France some heads were rolling, in our Vivelo Tour Competition things were relatively quiet. After all: not one of the riders finishing in the top 20 was a surpsise to us. To line up the right combination, that's the daily challenge.

A mountain stage with EBH as the winner and Mollema, Casar and Chavanel in the top 5. How unpredictable can it get… No wonder the classifications in the Vivelo Tour Competition went upside down after the 17th stage.The only one who could hold on to his yellow jersey - beside Thomas Voeckler, of course - was Rhodry. The leader in the Stage Competition scored another 900+.

We all know the feeling: Why don't we just sit back, relax and watch the fabulous stages in the Tour de France without worrying about the 'wrong' riders escaping, being caught back or finishing third or fourth in the stage?

What is there to tell about one of the last of the Real Sprints in this Tour? All fast men that we expected where there, except for Dumoulin and Gilbert. The first one killed a lot of SC-teams when he decided to take off in the daily escape after just a few miles, the second one stranded not far from the finish in a desperate chase for green-jersey-points.

The great victory of Jelle Vanendert at Plateau de Beille this afternoon was not only cheered loudly: a lot of followers called it a big surprise. It was't that big of a surprise for many of the connoisseurs in the Vivelo Tour Competition. The Belgian was repeatedly tipped as a winner during the last few days and figured in hundreds of SC-Teams. So here at the Vivelo Competition, playing Vanendert was not enough.

The Col d'Aubisque. Hushovd, Boasson Hagen, Petacchi, Gilbert, Rojas Gil. Of course: Who didn´t play these five in his or her team today? A major mountain stage in the Pyrenees? Come on, a piece of cake for Thor and the others.

It was predictable: The first mountain stage in the Tour de France shaked the rankings upside down. Only two men could hold on to their yellow jersey today: Thomas Voeckler in the Tour and Michel Schwanen in our Combination Classification.

We are exactly halfway through this Tour and the mountains are coming. So it's time for the Big Question: will the top players in the rankings of the Vivelo Tour Competition be able to hold on to their positions? In other words: Is the advantage they built with guys like Feillu, Greipel and Hinault enough to stay ahead of the climbing players?

It's a nightmare for many players in the Tour Competition. But it could be happening this time: Thomas Voeckler who makes the difference in the various competitions.

A short bulletin today, out of respect for Johnny Hoogerland and Juan Antonio Flecha. And for Jurgen van den Broeck, Alexandre Vinokourov, David Zabriskie, Amets Txurruka and the others, who followed Bradley Wiggins, Janez Brajkovic, Chris Horner and the rest in a premature end of this bizarre Tour de France.

Rui Alberto Faria da Costa. If not just for the beauty of the name everyone should have the Movistar-Portuguese in his team. Because not many participants had faith in him, the few Costa-players had their Big Day: The resurrection of Rui Costa and his victory in stage 8 of this Tour.

And here they were at last. We'll never know how the crashes in stage 7 affected the outcome (Farrar? Boasson? Ciolek? Dumoulin?), but the players who kept their faith in Petacchi, Galimzyanov and especially Bonnet in their team, were rewarded today.

We predicted this yesterday: The stage men like Edvald Boasson Hagen and Matthew Goss were gonna be in front, would be hard day for the leaders in our classifications. It happened even sooner than expected: EBH's win and the second place for Goss led to a huge tumble for the yellow jerseys in the Combination Classification and the Points Competition.

Frustrating days for the players in games like the Vivelo Tour Competition. I mean: what's Gilbert doing there, between Cav and Rojas? And of all the Sky-riders we may have expected, who put Geraint Thomas on 5? And Evans, Klöden, Van den Broeck, Wiggins and Roche in the top 20, who predicted that?

Sponkie from Amsterdam can start dreaming about the Grand Prize in the Vivelo Tour Competition 2011. With a few solid scores he defended his leading position in the Combination Classification.

Romain Feillu and Sébastien Hinault made the difference in the Vivelo Tour Competition 2011 today. The other riders in the top six of the third stage are pretty much played by everyone in all competitions, but drafting the two Frenchmen paid off for quite a few competitors.

The first leader of the combined ranking in the Vivelo Cycling Fever Competition is Patrick Willeput from Belgium. His classifactons in the Main-, Day- and Points Competition add up to only 56 points.

We're off! With a predictable podium after the first stage in the Tour de France 2011. Many of us expected Gilbert, Evans, Hushovd and Rojas on the Mont des Alouettes Les Herbiers. But Van den Broeck, Klöden, Horner and Martin in the top 10?

This is the 9th edition of the Tour Competition, the game that started everything off. A lot has changed since 2003; We have replaced the old Tour de France website over the years into CyclingFever, we've added new games and competitions and we're now positioned more as a cycling-website than ever before.

Tour 2011- Prizes & rules As this is the first time in nine years that prizes are on offer in our competitions, we have to introduce some extra rules on how we award these prizes.

It was brought to our attention that this years Tour will be different: We already knew that the intermediate sprint regulations were changed, but we overlooked that fewer riders would receive points for ascending cat 3 and cat 4 climbs.

The revelation of the Tour de France 2011 course makes a clear point for the climbers in the peloton. They should see enough opportunities in this edition.